BA Art and English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: BBB, including grade B in A level English Literature or related subject. Related subjects include: English Language, English Language and Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies, Creative Writing. You will be asked to provide an online portfolio of your work when you apply. See our undergraduate portfolio information page for more details. IB: 30 points overall including 5 at higher level in English Literature or related subject.
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Fine Art, combining literary study with practical studio practice. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme includes a supervised international study visit to a major European art centre. The degree is co-taught by staff from the Reading School of Art and the Department of English Literature.
Modules
- Art Studio 1
- Drawing
- Theory and Practice of Writing
- Poetry in English
- Introduction to Drama
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Shelf Life
- What is Comparative Literature?
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- Art Studio 2
- History of Art 3
- Victorian Literature
- International Study
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Contemporary Fiction
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Critical Thinking
- Early Modern Literature
- The Business of Books
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Shakespeare
- Art Studio 2b
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Children's Literature
- The Bloody Stage
- From Romance to Fantasy
- Placing Jane Austen
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- Writing Women: Nineteenth Century Poetry
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature
- Literature and Mental Health
- Shakespeare on Film
- Art Studio 3b
- Dissertation